Organised way to Translate Administrative Names on OpenStreetMap

This morning I was trying to print some maps in Kannada using Marble. Then to my surprise1 I found Philippines in English, which means there is no Kannada translation available. Then ran a simple query on Overpass to see the missing Kannada country names.

Missing Kannada Country names on OSM

The query prints the details in CSV format (separated by |) of all the nodes tagged with place as country. The results weren’t surprising there were about 20 countries, mostly small except Philippines and Taiwan which didn’t have Kannada names. I took next 10 mins to translate it.

After this effort I am wondering if this is a good way to get administrative names translated for India region. We can start with State names, then district, taluks and at last villages. A Kannada map with all the administrative names in Kannada will be of great help in schools and government related work. What do you think?

Thank you. But it is a tedious process. I have to zoom in every time, check whether place is already translated (transliterated), then enter name in Kannada if required. As a lot of places are already there in Kannada, it would be good if there is any way to filter out already translated names. And I want to know bulk translation process also as u have done in this post. But I am a non technical person, & have no knowledge of programming or something like that. But I can understand and run applications :)

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